Jessica Drake

Early life

Drake spent much of her early life growing up around the state of Texas in different cities including San Antonio and El Paso.

Career

While majoring in psychology at a college in El Paso, Drake took a job as a house dancer at a local strip club. Through an agency, she later applied to be feature dancer at another club nearby, and here she met adult film director Michael Raven, who was photographing a contest. Raven and his wife Sydnee Steele gradually introduced her to the porn industry. Drake began by posing for magazines and appearing on Playboy TV, and was later taken to a film set, where she was the "condom and lube girl" for a scene starring Jill Kelly and Mark Davis.

In 1999, she made the decision to become an adult film actress and shot her first movie, which was directed by Raven. She spent two years as a contract performer for the studio Sin City until May 31, 2002 when her contract expired. She gained her first AVN Award in 2001, winning "Best Tease Performance" for her role in VCA Pictures' Shayla's Web. In 2003, she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures, after turning down offers from other companies.

Plot: A woman hired to write the history of a wealthy family stays at the family's estate in Oregon. She discovers that she strongly resembles a long-dead ancestor in the family, and finds things happening to her that happened to--and led to the death of--that woman.